Dvorah Markman is the founder of the Law & Mediation Office of Dvorah Markman. Located in Los Angeles, California, she focuses her practice exclusively on family law alternative dispute resolution methods, including collaborative divorce and mediation. As such, Ms. Markman assists clients throughout the greater metropolitan area who are facing the end of their marriages and who would prefer to reach accords on such divorce-related issues as property division, child custody and visitation, and alimony and child support outside of the courtroom.

Ms. Markman is a co-founder and current member of the Los Angeles Collaborative Family Law Association, and she is a former chair of the executive committee of the Family Law Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association. She is frequently asked to deliver presentations on family law mediation and collaborative law to members of the Los Angeles County and Beverly Hills bar associations as well as The State Bar of California. Highly regarded by her fellow professionals for the ethical and sensitive way in which she handles what are often very emotional issues, Ms. Markman is AV Preeminent* peer-review rated through Martindale-Hubbell.

A recipient of a Bachelor of Arts from Washington University in St. Louis, Ms. Markman subsequently received her legal education from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, and was awarded her Juris Doctor in 1973. She began her career as a deputy district attorney with the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office and then had a criminal defense practice before switching to family law in 1987. Ms. Markman turned exclusively to alternative dispute resolution in 2001. Admitted to practice before all California state courts, she is also admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

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